How cells — the fundamental units of life — arise, specialize, renew, and fail. Exploring stem cell biology, cellular aging, gene editing, and the frontier of cellular medicine.
Siddhartha Mukherjee's 2022 book walks through the cell types of the human body chapter by chapter — from Hooke's cork to CAR-T immunotherapy. A tour of the eight cells he writes …
How a sperm and an egg fuse into one cell that carries a full human being inside it, and what the new genome-editing tools could do to that single cell. The Nobel laureate and for…
Siddhartha Mukherjee explains how stem cells originate in every tissue, why their numbers decline with age, and how CRISPR editing, CAR-T therapy, and bone marrow transplantation …